Matiss Aboltins
Staff Software Engineer at Datadog
Dublin, Dublin 1, Ireland
Summary
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RockstarMatiss Aboltins is a Staff Software Engineer based in Dublin with 13 years crafting front-end-first experiences and leading teams at companies like Datadog, Amazon (AWS CloudWatch), and Actual Budget. He blends deep expertise across React, Angular and Vue with hands-on backend work — from adding API endpoints and GoCardless integration to unit and integration testing — showing full-stack fluency. As Lead Software Engineer at Actual Budget he contributes to a local-first personal finance app, shipping UI improvements and fixes that reflect strong product sensibility. Known for taking on hard technical challenges, he moves between architecture, mentoring and feature delivery while keeping code quality and developer ergonomics front of mind. Avidly curious and always learning, he pairs pragmatic engineering with a knack for polishing user-facing details that matter.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
German, English, Latvian
Github Skills (20)
javascript10
apidoc10
testing10
component-development10
ui-design10
uid10
api10
front-end-development10
jestjs10
nodejs10
react10
user-interface9
interface-design9
databases9
database9
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
actualbudget/actual
Oct 2022 - Jan 2023
A local-first personal finance app
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:22 releases, 1784 reviews, 75 commits in 3 months
Contributions summary:Matiss primarily contributed to the front-end aspects of the "actualbudget/actual" repository, a local-first personal finance app. Their work focused on implementing new features within the user interface, specifically adding functionalities such as buttons for reconciliation balance updates, and the ability to add notes to accounts. The user also made various UI improvements, including adjustments to the layout, styling, and the addition of icons. Furthermore, the user addressed minor bugs and improved code quality by fixing linting errors.
financelaravellocal-firstpersonal-financebudgeting
actualbudget/actual-server
Jan 2023 - Jan 2023
Actual's server
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:224 reviews, 2 commits, 225 PRs in 1 day
Contributions summary:Matiss primarily contributed to the back-end functionality of the server, focusing on unit and integration testing using Jest. They added an endpoint to expose available banks and integrated with the GoCardless service, including setting up the status endpoint. They also made changes to configuration files and database interactions, demonstrating a focus on improving the server's overall functionality and integration with external services.
dockerserver
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